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Named engagement lead
One senior practitioner is your firm's contact across every matter - no account-management layer between you and the work.
§ For law firms · UK
eDiscovery built for the way UK litigation practices actually work.
For firms that want a panel-ready UK eDiscovery provider - one that works inside your Relativity or ours, prices transparently, and gives the litigation partner one number to call for both forensic collection and hosted review.
- Engagement
- Panel or single-matter
- Hosting
- Yours or ours
- Pricing
- Transparent unit
- Conflicts
- Neutral by design
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Plate · Law Firms§ 01 · Audience
Who this page is for.
UK law firm litigation and investigations practices - the partners running the matters, the associates running the workflow, and the legal operations leads running the panel.
- Litigation partners
Needing a provider that will stand behind its work at CMC and beyond.
- Senior associates
Running the DRD, the review team and the production cadence.
- Legal ops & LDS
Owning the panel arrangements and the unit economics.
- Investigations counsel
Handling internal reviews and regulator engagement under privilege.
§ 02 · The problem
What UK firms tell us they want fixed.
The complaints we hear about incumbents cluster around four themes. Each is fixable, and each is fixed in how we set up firm engagements.
Risk
Pricing that cannot be forecast
Invoices that don't match the pitch. Pass-through fees that surface mid-matter. Impossible to budget against.
Risk
Slow mobilisation
Urgent instructions that sit for days in a vendor's account-management funnel before technical work starts.
Risk
Weak forensic capability
eDiscovery providers who cannot themselves do a defensible collection, and sub-contract it to a partner they cannot supervise.
Risk
Opaque workflow
Reviewer training, QC decisions and privilege handling that the firm cannot see, cannot audit and cannot document.
§ 03 · Scope
How we set up firm engagements.
Six operating decisions that make firm work easier.
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Your tenancy or ours
We work inside your Relativity, or provide a hosted tenancy - with equal fluency in both models.
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Standing SLAs
Urgent collection within hours, first review-ready dataset within agreed timelines, weekend cover on request.
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Transparent unit pricing
Per-GB processing, per-GB per-month hosting, per-hour review management. Preferential rates on panel arrangements.
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Documented workflow
Reviewer training records, QC decisions and privilege coding available to the firm at any time.
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Neutral status
We do not act for either party on the merits, which allows us to give evidence on process if required.
§ 04 · Why e‑discovery.uk
Why UK firms instruct us.
Because the combined forensic + eDiscovery capability is under one roof, and the commercial model is legible.
Forensic + eDiscovery in one team
No vendor hand-off between collection and review.
Relativity fluency
Fluent in Relativity and RelativityOne. Reveal and Nuix Discover where the firm prefers.
PD 57AD workflow
DRD-fluent, model-aware, two-layer privilege QC.
Panel-ready commercials
Preferential unit rates and simplified PO handling for panel firms.
UK residency
Processing and hosting on UK infrastructure by default.
Direct contact
The engagement lead is the practitioner supervising your matter.
§ 05 · Typical matters
Where firms most often use us.
The typical instruction pattern.
- ▸PD 57AD disclosure in commercial and TCC disputes
- ▸Regulator response (FCA, CMA, ICO, Ofgem)
- ▸Internal investigations run under legal privilege
- ▸Departing-employee data theft
- ▸International arbitration with UK-seated disclosure
- ▸DSAR and SAR handling at scale
- ▸Public inquiry preparation
- ▸Second-request US-driven collection with UK data
§ 06 · Deliverables
What the firm gets.
Standard eDiscovery deliverables with firm-friendly operational hygiene.
- Named engagement lead
One senior practitioner across every matter.
- Processed review set
Delivered into your Relativity or ours.
- Hosted review workspace
QC'd, access-controlled, audit-logged.
- Production set
Court, tribunal or regulator-compliant.
- Full audit trail
Reviewer training records, QC decisions, hash logs, workflow documentation.
- Close-out certificate
Secure destruction or archive on matter close.
§ 07 · Frequently asked
Answers to the questions counsel ask most.
- Do you work as a panel provider or on single-matter instructions?
- Both. We hold panel-style arrangements with UK litigation practices and take single-matter instructions from firms that want to test us on a live piece of work before formalising the relationship. Either way the workflow, security posture and pricing structure are the same.
- Will you work inside our firm's Relativity tenancy?
- Yes. We are fluent working inside a firm's existing Relativity or RelativityOne instance - configuring workspaces, running processing pipelines, managing reviewer training and QC - with the same rigour we apply to our own tenancy.
- How do you handle privilege in a firm's own review?
- We agree the privilege framework with the case partner at the outset - search-term suppression, reviewer coding guidance, two-layer QC - and configure the review environment to enforce it. Where the matter warrants, we provide a walled-off privilege team.
- Can associates and paralegals review inside your environment?
- Yes. We provide reviewer accounts, training and QC oversight for firm associates and paralegals working inside our hosted tenancy. Access is role-based, time-limited and audited.
- How do you price for firm clients?
- Transparent unit pricing: per-GB processed, per-GB per-month hosted, per-hour review management. Where a firm brings us onto a panel arrangement we agree preferential unit rates and simplified purchase-order handling. Fixed-fee scoping is available for defined-scope disclosure work.
- What if the matter suddenly needs a forensic collection?
- Our forensic collection team is available on hours' notice UK-wide. Because collection and eDiscovery sit in the same practice, there is no vendor hand-off between the collection and the downstream review workflow.
- Do you support LDR / Legal Design Review workflows?
- Yes. We support the current PD 57AD Disclosure Review Document workflow, sample-based search-term negotiation, and the emerging expectations around technology-assisted review disclosure statements.
- How do you handle conflicts?
- We run a conflicts check before formal engagement and can act for one firm on a matter where another firm is on the other side. Our independence from all parties on the merits is a feature, not a bug.
Instruct the practice
Bring us in early.
Defensibility is built, not retrofitted.
Whether you are responding to a regulator, preparing for disclosure, or scoping an internal investigation, start the chain of custody with a short, confidential conversation.